David Madden bibliography
# David Madden bibliography

The following is a list of published works by David Madden (born July 25, 1933), including his novels, short stories, and literary criticism. He also published several poems and works of nonfiction.

## Fiction

### Novels

* The Beautiful Greed (1961)
* Hair of the Dog (serialized novel) (1967)
* Cassandra Singing (1969)
* Brothers in Confidence (1972)
* Bijou (1974)
* The Suicide's Wife (1978)
* Pleasure-Dome (1979)
* On the Big Wind (1980)
* Sharpshooter: A Novel of the Civil War (1996)
* Abducted by Circumstance (2010)
* London Bridge in Plague and Fire (2012)

### Short story collections

* The Shadow Knows (1970)
* The New Orleans of Possibilities (1982)

## Nonfiction

### Literary criticism

**Authored**

* The Poetic Image in 6 Genres (1969)
* Harlequin’s Stick, Charlie’s Cane: A Comparative Study of Commedia dell’arte and Silent Slapstick Comedy (1975)
* A Primer of the Novel (1980)
* Writers’ Revisions (1981)
* Revising Fiction: A Handbook for Writers (1988)
* Beyond the Battlefield (2000)
* Touching the Web of Southern Novelists (2006)
* The Tangled Web of the Civil War and Reconstruction (forthcoming in 2015)

**Compiled/edited**

* Rediscoveries (1971)
* American Dreams, American Nightmares (1972)
* Proletarian Writers of the Thirties (1979)
* Tough Guy Writers of the Thirties (1979)
* Rediscoveries II (1988)
